Truth is fine. Absolutely.
CORNEL WESTWe have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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